Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Joe Fitz-fecking-patrick... Ugh...

And we lost 2 Tory councillors (though I suspect this has more to do with the Boundary and Voting changes as opposed to votes -- one area with 4 Tories previously cannot be expected to return 4 Tories under the STV)

Had the day off yesterday, since my school is a polling station. Today spent all the time in the library checking the poll results regularly, debating the results and the parties. Sore disappointment at the amount of SNP seats.

Quite surprised at how badly the small parties have done - only one other party (Scottish Greens) returned a member.


Of course, the counting has been a farce, with over 100,000 votes not being counted (due to incorrect filling in, no doubt due to the introduction of the STV). The nice woman spokesman came on the BBC this morning to say everthing was running very well, despite the fact the machines weren't reading ballots, and many poll counts (council elections mostly) had to be postponed...